Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This erosion of the nation's ability to defend itself was, in a way, a bipartisan policy that began with Richard Nixon, who boasted that he was the first President in 20 years to devote a greater share of the national budget to social programs than to defense. Gerald Ford proposed some modest increases in real defense spending, but they were trimmed back by the overwhelmingly Democratic Congresses of his day. Jimmy Carter closed a Minuteman assembly line, canceled the neutron bomb and delayed cruise missile production. The public's insistence on "no more Viet Nams" and a hope that...
...President's respect and confidence in the 1960s as finance director in Reagan's California cabinet, and has remained close to the President. As Director of the Office of Management and Budget under Richard Nixon and as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under both Nixon and Gerald Ford, Weinberger became known as "Cap the Knife," the vigorous slasher of budgets and waste...
...more Katyusha rockets at northern Israel. The Palestinian action was noteworthy less for its scope than for the fact that it occurred so soon after the Israelis had knocked out so many bridges in the region. Israeli authorities concluded that the Palestinians were using mules, which can ford streams, to transport the sophisticated rockets to launching areas in southern Lebanon...
...Benz, Porsche and BMW, the program has brought engineering advances in everything from engine design to the use of lightweight plastic in bodies, frames and even in axles. VW has received $7.5 million in government funds and spent another $7.5 million of its own money on the studies. Though Ford and General Motors are independently working on high-mileage cars for the early 1990s, Volkswagen has for now stolen the lead...
What is perhaps most valuable about the exhibit is the care with which Curators John G. Hanhardt and Greg Ford have sorted out the individual contributions of the animators. All of them could outdraw the founder, who hung up his pencil early to assume the role of a demanding, inspiring editor. Though Walt tended to get the credit for everything that came out of the studio, its style was really the creation of many artists, each one honing a speciality. Ward Kimball, Les Clark and Frank Thomas were particularly adept at complicated fast-moving action sequences, while Art Babbitt concentrated...